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The Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) is a voluntary bar association with more than 16,000 members throughout Los Angeles County, California, and the world. [1] Founded in 1878, LACBA has strived to meet the professional needs of lawyers, advance the administration of justice, and provide the public with access to justice. [2]
Jews were admitted to membership about 1966 in the Los Angeles Chancery Club, for attorneys, and in 1976 there was one black Chancery Club member — Sam Williams, president-elect of the County Bar Association. [9] Warner Heineman, vice chairman of Union Bank, who was Jewish, was admitted to membership in the Jonathan Club in October 1977.
The Black Cat Tavern is an LGBT historic site located in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. In 1967, it was the site of one of the first demonstrations in the United States protesting police brutality against LGBT people, preceding the Stonewall riots by over two years.
The Patch was an LGBT bar formerly located at 610 W. Pacific Coast Highway in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington, California.The Patch, along with the Black Cat Tavern, played a pivotal role in the gay rights movement, when, in August 1968, it was one of the first sites where there was open resistance to the constant police harassment of gay establishments and meeting places in ...
Carol L. Newman (1979): [419] First openly LGBT female to serve as the San Fernando Valley Bar Association, Los Angeles County, California (2015) Jackie Lacey (1982): [ 420 ] First female (and African American female) District Attorney for Los Angeles County, California (2012)
Los Angeles County Bar Association; Los Angeles County Counsel; Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation; Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association; Los Angeles County Young Democrats; Los Angeles crime family; Los Angeles Film Critics Association; Los Angeles Free Music Society; Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum
The National Bar Association (NBA) was founded in 1925 and is the nation's oldest and largest national network of predominantly African-American attorneys and judges. It represents the interests of approximately 67,000 lawyers, judges, law professors, and law students.
Jewel's Catch One was a dance bar owned by Jewel Thais-Williams.It was located at 4067 West Pico Boulevard in the Arlington Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.Opened in 1973, it was the longest running black gay dance bar in Los Angeles.